Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson's ancestry reaches six generations back into Texas history. One great-grandfather was the second president of Baylor University. Another was a preacher who persuaded Sam Houston to get rid of his Indian mistress and stop drinking. Another was a member of the Texas legislature. Perhaps most important to Lyndon's future, his father was a member of the state legislature-and served there with Sam Rayburn...
...year-old tailor who before leaving closed his store and sent a mimeographed letter to all his customers saying he was not coming back. Police found an empty pistol holster in his home and an air navigation chart. With him went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with rank equivalent to a Deputy Premier...
Mathilde Carré had green eyes, "somewhat fanglike" teeth and so much self-confidence that at school she had been nicknamed Little Princess. A sometime nurse in Paris, Mathilde made her way to Toulouse in occupied France, where she became the mistress of Major Czarniawski, a Polish intelligence officer. He enlisted Mathilde's help in forming an Allied intelligence network. Her way of curling up in a leather chair and nervously scratching its arms with her fingernails brought her the nickname under which she became famous: The Cat. Years later, though, a British security guard remarked...
Said The Cat later: "Of course I realised that it was out of the question 'or me to stay in a place like that. Why. the water-closet smelled quite abominably." Next morning she became a German agent; that very night she became Bleicher's mistress. "[He was a] most disgusting sentimental beast," she remarked .ater...
...with the help of a shrewd Allied agent, The Cat jumped again. Still Bleicher's mistress by night, she became a British agent by day. She managed to get to London, taking with her "a complete German radio code," and the British set to work sending false information back to Bleicher. But she hated London. "I don't feel that I am really liked or trusted," she complained. She was dead right. When her usefulness was ended, the British clapped her into jail, and at war's end handed her back to the French police in return...